Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A bowed string instrument of the 18th century, similar to the bass viol, but having sympathetic strings on the rear of the fingerboard.

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  • noun music A string instrument related to the viol, employed in European music prior to the 1800s

Etymologies

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From the German Baryton, from bary- + Ton

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Examples

  • The French seem to have a lock on this type of baritone, sometimes called a baryton Martin, named after Jean-Blaise Martin, who exemplified this lighter, flexible style in the early decades of the 19th century.

    News 2011

  • The French seem to have a lock on this type of baritone, sometimes called a baryton Martin, named after Jean-Blaise Martin, who exemplified this lighter, flexible style in the early decades of the 19th century.

    News 2011

  • Miklos was also pretty cool on the baryton a kind of cello.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Miklos was also pretty cool on the baryton a kind of cello.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • As the Prince prided himself on his playing, Haydn was required to produce endless pieces for the instrument, and he was even at considerable pains to acquire a knowledge of the baryton itself, thinking thereby to afford his master pleasure.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • The Prince himself played the baryton, or viola di bardone -- a stringed instrument of sweet, resonant tone, which, like the viol da gamba, to which it bore some resemblance, has long since ceased to be heard.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • The tenor, baryton, and bass instruments follow in similar relation; the bass horns are, as I have said, called tubas; and that with four valves, the euphonium.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

  • Haydn's magnificent patron and master played the baryton, and it was one of his duties to write pieces for it.

    Haydn Runciman, John F 1908

  • Haydn, so far as we can make out, never essayed the baryton again, but he wrote a surprising amount of music for it, considering its complicated mechanism and the weakness of its tone.

    Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902

  • "Deutschlands Klage auf den Tod Friedrichs der Grossen," cantata for single voice, with baryton accompaniment, 1787.

    Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902

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